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Article: Violence has subsided enough in Sadr City that public-works projects will resume.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 30, 2004
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Byline: Nancy A. Youssef
BAGHDAD, Iraq _ A weapons-buyback program has been successful enough in the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City that workers will begin collecting garbage Saturday and undertaking other public projects in the sprawling Shiite Muslim slum, officials said Friday.
It will be the first time such work has been done in Sadr City's northern two-thirds since Aug. 5, when rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia engaged in fierce fighting with U.S. troops. The fighting ended Oct. 11 when American forces and al-Sadr agreed to the buyback program.
On the agenda: cleaning raw sewage from the streets, fixing broken water pipes, ...